WOMEN AT CAMBRIDGE.

Evening Star, Issue 18254, 19 April 1923, Page 3

WOMEN AT CAMBRIDGE.

"STILL OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITT.” The ordinances concerning women students which have just. been passed by t-.ic Senate of Cambridge L’nivcimty have been represented: in some quarters as a great advance for women and 1 as conferring on them nearly all the benefits that they have long desired. The principals of Ntwnham and Girton Colleges have written a lettci to ‘The Times’ to correct that notion. The new ordinances, they explain, giant to duly qualified- women the right to use the letters U.A., M.A., M.Litt.. and Bh.D. after their names and to wear academic dress; they also secure to students ol the women’s colleges the right to attend university lectures and to receive teaching in university laboiJiies, The first of t&«c privileges will certainly be of value to women in the t aching profession, and the second no less certainly places) women students in a mure satisfactory position. But it -s still true that Cambridge, in tho words of :.':e Royal Commission, is “ the only university in the country who;»‘, neither women sir dents nor women teachers have tho status of membership of tho university, mil »t'-.ie the teachers, however well qunldieJ, are not eligible for posts or offices in the university, and arc excluded from nil share in discussions on the organisation of teaching.” Tho women are sjill cut side the university, and a woman >\ith the {’tie of a- degree will not he a. graduate, of tho university. At the end of iHe. Jiseibsuui on those ordinance# in the ■:<:nate Jin use on February 22 the Vice-master of Tnaity said that “ho felt bound at '.bat last moment to repeat the statement . . . that on their side they could not accept either the statute or ho orctinan-es r.s in any sense a- setlement of the question.”